ALYAZ, Yunus Uludağ Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Bölümü Alman Dili Eğitimi ABD, Turkey , DOĞAN, Mehmet Uludağ Üniversitesi - Yabancı Diller Yüksekokulu - Almanca Bölümü, Turkey

Student Teachers Attitudes Towards Using Documentary Movies on Environment and Nature as Course Materials for Teaching And Learning German as a Foreign Language

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This paper presents the findings of an extensive research project on the use of environmental and nature documentaries in a language teaching context during the winter semester 2013. The focus is on the perceptions of GFL student teachers regarding the use of environmental and nature documentaries in teaching German as a foreign or second language. Despite four-decade long discussions on its didactic use, the film medium hasn’t found a place in the GFL classroom due to a number of difficulties and obstacles and it has been largely neglected. To understand the attitudes of GFL student teachers towards using environmental and nature documentaries (154 female and 25 male students, aged between 18 and 32), a skill scale with 12 items was employed. The results indicate that the perceptions of student teachers prior to the project and after the completion of the project are predominantly positive. Perceptions of the gains in specific areas (language competence, knowledge about society and culture, median-competence) differ according to socio-demographic variables. However, a significant difference in the perceptions prior to the project and after completion of the project has been observed.

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German as Foreign Language , Environment , Nature , Documentary Movie , Linguistic Skills

Journal Of Uludag University Faculty Of Education

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